• PROMOTION

 Exercise 1: Put the verbs into the correct tense! 

• DIVERSITY
  • As with most clichés, it is also a truism that managers often tend to recruit in their own image— males, for example, have a tendency to employ males. If left unchallenged, such behavior can lead to companies staffed with homogenous clones— people from the same backgrounds and with the same view of how the business should be run.
  • In contrast, when organizations actively pursue diversity—by employing people from different cultures and socio-economic backgrounds, and of different genders and ages—the more dynamic and stimulating they are as places to work.
  • Greater diversity means greater scope for creativity—the more varied are the sources of an organization’s views, the more likely that out-of-the-box thinking and problem solving will occur.
  • Studies have shown that diversity can also combat groupthink, a malaise in group dynamics that can stifle innovation and growth. In diverse teams, opinions are less likely to go unchallenged.
  • Diversity is not confined to employee demographics. It might simply involve creating crossfunctional teams that incorporate the views of people from across a company—the marketing team, for example, might benefit from the insight of operations or finance. But whatever the context, monochrome recruitment can lead to stasis— diversity fights against it.

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 Exercise 2: Listen to the recording where a business management expert talks about the price that some companies have to pay when they fail to address diversity-related risks. Read through the statements below and decide whether they are true or false according to the listening.